In this video we are going to take a quick look at a Budget AR 15 Upgrade that I have been wanting to do for a while. This Midwest Industries Handguard is a Drop-in AR-15 Upgrade that brings MLOK to your carbine, midlength or rifle length retro rifle.
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I have the midlength it wiggled a bit. Fixed it with JB weld into the area where the barrel nut sits. The thing is tight now and still removes easy.
🤔 This is actually an awesome upgrade… it would be perfect for my favorite BCM, where the front sight gas block aint going anywhere. The only thing is– is the same rail available for midlength Ahhhhhhhh THERE YOU GO YOU JUST SAID IT! They offer it midlength. 😘😘😘 …okay that was um, awkward. Cool, brother.
I'm getting ready to build a retro AR and the Midwest industry's rail is friggin cool.
00:52. 🤣😂🤣
good looking mini rail…
Sounds like you might need to see a doctor for your throat
Looks good. Nice audio track 🙂
I prefer the A-frame front sight. I’m so accustomed to that sight picture it’s weird to not have it. It’s all much to do about nothing.
Training people… You don’t know what you don’t know until somebody shows & tells you. That said you should be wise enough to know you such and should seek training to suck less.
Where's the heat shield
I think you should get a hepa air filter you seem to have a bit of a cough good sir. 😉
This video is 5:56 long! I’m sure that’s not a mistake
I have the mid length. I like it but moves just enough to get on my nerves (like a 1/16 back and forth.) I’ll probably pick up one of their free float rails down the road.
Hello! Will this fit on older ARs with the carry handle?
I have one of the original Saints with the plastic hand guard this should drop right in✔
That is pretty sweet! Part of me does wish that it was extended like the Magpul SL handguards.
This! Thank you. This in spades, especially if you decide to run with a 14.5" with a permantly affixed muzzle device.
A carbine with a fixed gas block sight has a ton of utility if you don't plan to use a highly magnified optic. A pinned gas block provides the most reliably zeroed front sight in relation to the barrel and the most reliably affixed gas block, since a gas block that shifts can turn your carbine into a single-shot.
A free float handguard has an accuracy advantage because the handguard doesn't apply pressure to the barrel and impact barrel harmonics, but that advantage is pretty minor for a modest barrel length. 14.5" barrel assembly's or uppers can be bought with or without the muzzle device permanently attached. Some people may not have the tools and talent necessary to pin and weld a muzzle device after installing a free float handguard, and you can't take a gas block front sight off and install a free float handguard if the muzzle device is already pinned. For most of us, the handguard is of limited utility already. If you don't have nods, you don't need a laser or an ir illuminator, so you don't need a ton of handguard. I see the handguard as a place for my support hand, my sling mount and a white light. I like the IWC Thorntail to cantilever a short white light off the front of the handguard next to the front sight.
The Midwest Indistries drop-in handguard is perfect for this. It makes no difference to me whether it's Keymod or M-LOK because I attach the white light mount to the pic rail behind the front sight and the MI drop-in handguard already has the qd sling cups machined in on both sides, front and back, and one up front underneath. It's perfect. Wiyh a drop-in, if you buy a 14.5" complete upper or rifle you can save yourself the headache of a pin and weld job by buying it with the muzzle device already permanently attached. Of course, I like the midlength…
I bet that hand guard would give some wicked paper cuts
mid length too?! oh im picking one up for sure
You really need to get a throat lozenge man lol! Can't wait to see more 👍
Very cool, just bought same rail but in Rifle Length for the ol Delton Dissipator rifle. Luvin it👍🏻😎🇺🇸